The Burton NZ Open is the pinnacle of snowboarding competition in the Southern Hemisphere. It brings together some of the world's top professional riders including X Games champions, Olympic gold medallists and world champions. All of them are competing for one thing - the largest title payout in snowboarding.
The male and female cumulative-points champions will each collect $100,000 USD after competing in the New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan and USA events. New Zealand being the first of the six international events.
Spectators will be able to watch all the action for free from a specially created grandstand carved out of snow.
The action begins on Wednesday July 30 with the men's and women's halfpipe qualifiers. Then, on Thursday July 31, the action moves to Snow Park NZ's newly designed slopestyle course for the qualifiers. Afterwards, the Slopestyle Semi-finals and Finals will take place on Friday August 1.
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